IIS w3svc error

Question

I am trying to start my website in IIS, whenever I try to start my website I get the following error

Cannot start service w3svc on computer

Answer 1

In my case it was C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config which had an issue. I had a "system.web" section in this file which was causing the problem. Removed the section and everything started working